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Terrace Backdrop (The Love for Three Oranges)

Maurice Sendak

1981

2013.106:161

Classification

Drawing

Department

Modern and Contemporary Drawings

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Nude Man with Right Arm Outstretched, Holding Commander's Baton in Left, and Other Studies for the Same Figure. Verso: Sheet of Studies: Several for a Nude Man, Seen from the Back, Others of Arms and Legs and Seated Figures

Attributed to Bartholomeus Spranger

1546-1611

1993.75

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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The little boy's own book : consisting of games and pastimes, with directions for the breeding and management of rabbits, birds, pigeons, etc. for the recreation and amusement of good boys / by Uncle Charles ; with illustrations, by Henry Sears.

Charles, Uncle.

London : Published by T.J. Allman, 463, Oxford Street, W.C., [ca. 1860]

PML 82942.2

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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The Card Player

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

1606-1669

1641

RvR 212

Classification

Print

Department

Drawings and Prints

Prints

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The dictes or sayengis of the philosophres

PML 673

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
A true & faithful relation of what passed for many yeers between Dr. John Dee ... and some spirits : tending (had it succeeded) to a general alteration of most states and kingdomes in the world : his private conferences with Rodolphe Emperor of Germany, Stephen K. of Poland, and divers other princes about it : the particulars of his cause, as it was agitated in the Emperors court, by the Pope's intervention : his banishment and restoration in part : as also the letters of sundry great men and princes (some whereof were present at some of these conferences and apparitions of spirits) to the said D. Dee : out of the original copy, written with Dr. Dees own hand, kept in the library of Sir Tho. Cotton ... : with a preface confirming the reality (as to the point of spirits) of this relation, and shewing the several good uses that a sober Christian may make of all / by Meric. Casaubon.

Dee, John, 1527-1608.

London : Printed by D. Maxwell for T. Garthwait ..., 1659.

PML 6273

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Nevv Englands first fruits : in respect, first of the conversion of some, conviction of divers, preparation of sundry of the Indians, 2. of the progresse of learning in the colledge at Cambridge in Massacusets Bay : with divers other speciall matters concerning the country.

London : Printed by R. O. and G. D. for Henry Overton ..., 1643.

PML 7987

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Book

Department

Printed Books

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Collection in Focus: Walton Ford's Passion for Drawing

For our Centennial, we asked some of our friends and collaborators to speak about what they love about the Morgan. First up, artist Walton Ford describes some of his favorites drawings in our collection and what about these works inspire him.

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Modern and Contemporary Drawings: Recent Acquisitions

February 26 through June 30, 2019

Nearly fifteen years ago, while the construction of its Renzo Piano-designed expansion was under way, the Morgan embarked on a new program of acquisitions of modern and contemporary drawings.

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THE MORGAN PRESENTS A SOLO EXHIBITION OF ASSEMBLAGES AND SKETCHES BY BETYE SAAR

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Thursday, June 18, 2020

The Morgan Library & Museum proudly announces a solo exhibition of work by the Los Angeles–based artist Betye Saar (b. 1926). Best known for incisive collages and assemblages that confront and reclaim racist images, Saar emerged in the 1960s as part of a wave of artists, many of them African American, who embraced the medium of assemblage.

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